On 07/20/2016 03:33 PM, Pranith Kumar wrote: >>> + - http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere >>> \ No newline at end of file >> >> Why no ending newline? >> > > Hmm, the original README did not have an explicit new line at end of > file. I am not sure if it is really necessary though. Why do we need > one?
Technically, ALL text files should have an ending newline. POSIX says that a file without an ending newline is not a text file, at which point programs like sed and grep are allowed to do rather interesting things (such as refuse to process the file because it is binary). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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